The experts, mandated by the investigating judge in charge of the investigation, attribute his death to the gestures made during his arrest, which “resulted in a very rapid deprivation of oxygen to the brain”.
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Two years after the death of Cédric Chouviat during a traffic check in Paris, the responsibility of the police officers who arrested him is pointed out by a new summary medical expertise, dated January 8 and which France Télévisions was able to consult on Monday January 24 . The five experts, appointed by the investigating judge in charge of the investigation, attribute the death of the 42-year-old delivery driver to a “simultaneous association of several factors” stemming from gestures of interpellation having “resulted in a very rapid deprivation of oxygen to the brain”. Three of the four police officers present had been indicted for “manslaughter” in July 2020.
On January 3, 2020, during a traffic check in the center of Paris, Cédric Chouviat had been tackled to the ground, with his motorcycle helmet on his head, and had lost consciousness. Hospitalized in critical condition, he was pronounced dead two days later.